KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Taliban forces targeted "several points" in neighbouring Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes earlier this week, Afghanistan's defence ministry said on Saturday. Read full story

LOS ANGELES (AFP): Olivia Hussey, who starred as a teenage Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," garnering her a Golden Globe, died Friday (Dec 27) at the age of 73, her family announced. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 20 people who were convicted of extremism, state media reported on Saturday. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had foiled a plot by Ukraine to kill a high-ranking Russian officer and a pro-Russian war blogger with a bomb hidden in a portable music speaker. Read full story

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief Friday (Dec 27) urging the Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban TikTok the day before his January 20 inauguration if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is open to a Slovakian proposal to host peace talks with Ukraine to end a conflict he said Russia was determined to bring to a conclusion. Read full story

OSLO: A bus carrying several foreign tourists went off the road and ended up partially submerged in a lake near the Raftsundet strait that separates the Lofoten archipelago from the Norwegian mainland, killing three people and injuring four, police said Thursday (Dec 26). Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's parliament began a session on Friday where a vote to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo over short-lived martial law is scheduled, as the Constitutional Court said it would swiftly decide suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol's fate. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's spy agency said it has confirmed that an injured North Korean soldier was captured alive, the Yonhap news agency reported on Friday. Read full story

(Reuters) - Richard D. Parsons, a longtime banking executive who took the helm of Time Warner during a troubled time for the communications company and who helped Citigroup navigate the financial crisis, died on Thursday at age 76. Read full story

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had foiled several plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill high-ranking Russian officers and their families in Moscow using bombs disguised as power banks or document folders. Read full story

HAWAII: A dead body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines jetliner after the aircraft landed in the Hawaiian island of Maui, the airline said on Wednesday (Dec 25). Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's main opposition party said it will introduce a bill to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo on Thursday and hold a vote on Friday, a move that could deepen the country's constitutional crisis triggered by a short-lived martial law. Read full story

TOKYO: Japan Airlines said on Thursday it was hit by a cyberattack that may affect both domestic and international flights. Read full story

OSLO, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Train operations across Norway were brought to a standstill on Christmas Day following a communication system failure between trains and the traffic control center. Read full story

BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libya's eastern-based government said in a statement on Wednesday that it had agreed on a proposal to end fuel subsidies??and would prepare a mechanism to implement the agreement. Read full story

KYIV (Reuters) -Russia attacked Ukraine's energy system and cities in its eastern region with cruise and ballistic missiles on Wednesday morning, Ukraine's energy minister and local officials said. Read full story

ASTANA (Reuters) -An Embraer passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 67 passengers and five crew on board, Kazakh authorities announced, saying 12 people had survived. Read full story

GWACHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea's suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol did not respond on Wednesday to a second summons by anti-corruption authorities who, along with prosecutors, are investigating his short-lived martial law decree issued early this month. Read full story

LONDON: Bird farms across England's eastern coast had to enforce preventative bird flu measures starting Monday after a spate of cases were detected in the latest outbreak of the virus. Read full story

LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England's second most senior cleric Stephen Cottrell will call in a Christmas sermon on Wednesday for repentance and change within an institution reeling from child abuse cover-up scandals. Read full story

ROME, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 Jubilee Year was officially launched on Tuesday in Rome under heightened security measures. Read full story

NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks ended higher on Tuesday. Read full story

PARIS (Reuters) - French officials raised the death toll in Mayotte to 39 from 35, about 10 days after the islands were battered by a devastating cyclone. Read full story

ESTREITO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian state and federal authorities were assessing on Tuesday the risks of water contamination after trucks carrying sulfuric acid and agricultural pesticides plunged into a river on Sunday in a deadly bridge collapse. Read full story

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian Christians attended Christmas Eve services on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in early December, in an early test of the new Islamist rulers' pledges to protect the rights of the country's religious minorities. Read full story

LONDON: Chocolate firm Cadbury said on Monday it was "disappointed" after losing its royal warrant for the first time in 170 years following King Charles III's first review of the coveted list since becoming monarch. Read full story

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Spying runs in the family for Oleh Kolesnikov. Read full story

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life making sure that if disaster strikes again, his home province of Aceh will be ready. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's main opposition party will submit a bill to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo on Tuesday, a party spokesperson said, increasing the risk of further political uncertainty in Asia's fourth-largest economy. Read full story

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed two Islamic State operatives and wounded one. Read full story

(Reuters) - The Sudanese government has suspended its participation in the global hunger-monitoring system on the eve of a report that???s expected to show famine spreading across the country, a step likely to undercut efforts to address one of the world???s largest hunger crises. Read full story

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. California-based Coralogix, the well-funded observability platform, on Monday announced that it has acquired Aporia, a startup that focuses on giving businesses tools to observe and secure their artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, as well as set guardrails for them to avoid hallucinations or unintended disclosures. Read full story

(Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will take office on Jan. 20 after defeating Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November's presidential election.?? Read full story

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - In front of Saudah's house on Indonesia's Sumatra island lie two damaged coast guard ships, washed ashore by a tsunami 20 years ago and a daily reminder that her youngest son has yet to come home. Read full story

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's main opposition party threatened on Monday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo if he failed to proclaim a law to launch a special counsel investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed bid to impose martial law. Read full story

Jeff Bezos just said we should all reevaluate our approach to risk. Science backs him up. Read full story

Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the US presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk???s X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner???s support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta???s Threads and its algorithms. Read full story

Americans now spend more time alone, have fewer close friendships and feel more socially detached from their communities than they did 20 years ago. Read full story

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand has rejected a proposal by the Cook Islands, a self-governing nation in free association with the larger Pacific country, to allow the creation of its own passports and citizenship but said it could discuss independence. Read full story